The police’s security operation to safeguard the 2018 Asian Games conceivably violated human rights. In their Operasi Cipta Kondisi (Operation: Creating Safe Conditions), the police shot dead scores of suspected roadside bandits-presumably arbitrarily. In the Jakarta capital city alone, throughout July until the beginning of August, as many as 52 bandit suspects were shot, and 15 of that number died.

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